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Serving the Apple Computer User Community Since May 1984
Volume 28, Number 6 - February 2012
Coordinator’s
Cornerby John Buckley
Next GAAB MeetingFebruary 8, 2012
Using the Cloud
7:00 p.m.
St. Mary’s HospitalTroy, NY
Featured in this Issue
Super Bowl “Commercial” ....................................................... 1Program Coordinator ................................................................ 1
Apple Ambassador .................................................................... 2
Internet SIG ............................................................................... 3
Education SIG ........................................................................... 4
Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................... 7
GAAB Internet Addresses......................................................... 9
The GAB’er The Newsletter of the Greater Albany Apple Byters
Continued on page 6.
The Best Super Bowl AdJim Cramer of nancial publication
The Street says that one SuperBowl
commercial struck him as being the
most honest, most riveting and most
compelling of all.
“The game had just ended,” said
Cramer, “and Colts great Raymond
Berry ran the Giant gantlet with
the Lombardi Trophy. Suddenly it
seemed like every other Giant pulled out an iPhone to snap
pictures of the moment. One after another after another.
And I said to myself, there it is, not some pet dangling a
bag of chips or some headlights killing vampires or King
Elton getting trapdoored. Nope, there was an ad worthy
of Steve Jobs and the company he built.”
Of course, it wasn’t an ad. It was just a collection of the
most cool, most idolized competitors in the world whippingout their favorite device, which they had on the eld, ready
for action.
To Cramer, the endorsement of Apple by real athletes who
were not paid, said it all. “When everyone else is paying
$3 million per commercial, Apple paid nothing and easily
had the best ad of all,” said Cramer.
Working in the Cloud
This month we will look atthe many of the advantages
of using the cloud, something
you may already be using
without knowing it. For the
most part, to use Cloud computing you only need a web
browser and an internet connection.
Also we will set the schedule for the remaining
demonstrations. In addition, we will take a closer look at
what is available on your Mac without adding any software
To nd out what’s happening, GAAB is the place to be. So
be sure to be at our February meeting and every meetingto nd out the best information about the Mac.
The February meeting will be held at St. Mary’s Hospital
in the Leonard Board Room on Wednesday, February 8,
2012. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. St. Mary’s Hospital
is located at 1300 Massachusetts Avenue in Troy NY.
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The Greater Albany Apple Byters is an Apple
Computer User Group. Meetings are held the second
Wednesday of each month (except July and August)
in Room 212 of Troy High School, located on Burdett
Avenue, Troy, NY.
Annual membership fee is $10.00. Membership privi-leges include this newsletter, access to a large public
domain software and video/audio tape library, local
vendor discounts, special interest groups, and other
special offers.
Contents of The GAB’er are copywriten, all rights
reserved. Original articles may be reprinted by not-
for-prot organizations, provided that proper credit
is given to the author, The GAB’er, and a copy of the
publication sent to The GAB’er editor.
The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility
of each author, and do not necessarily represent the
views of the Greater Albany Apple Byters.
Note: Trademarks used in this newsletter are recog-
nized as trademarks of the representative companies.
Ofcers & Special Interest Group Leaders
Program Coordinator
John Buckley
272-7128
Membership Director
Cecilia MacDonald872-0823
Treasurer
Cecilia MacDonald
872-0823
Public Domain Librarian
Bill Shuff
393-9753
Newsletter Editor
Roger Mazula
466-7492
Education SIG
John Buckley
272-7128
Internet SIG
Lou Wozniak
465-2873
Apple
Ambassador
by John Buckley
Continued on page 6.
Book Review: The Mac OS X Lion
Project Bookby Scott McNulty
Review by Dave Greenbaum
This book, despite its title,
isn’t as much a book about
Lion as it is a book about how
to use a Mac with Lion to do
certain neat projects. Most
Mac users can figure out
email and surng the web,
but what about taking your
DVD collection and putting
in on your Mac? Before
purchasing this book, read
through the projects. Even
if one of them interests you,
the book will be a great value. If you aren’t interested in
any of this, then it’s probably worth taking a pass. Projects
are as follows:
1) Organizing your les
2) Mastering Spotlight searches
3) Printing to save paper
4) Installing applications purchased at the Mac App store
5) Providing Remote Technical Support
6) Remote controlling a Mac in your home
7) Accessing your les remotely from another Mac
8) Using DropBox
9) Copying DVD content to your Mac
10) Basic photo editing and touch ups
11) Creating a slideshow
12) Using Rapid Weaver for a family website
13) RSS Feeds14) Conguring TextExpander
15) Full screen mode to avoid distractions
16) Audio Podcasting
17) Setting up Time Machine alongside a cloning solution
18) Using your signature in a PDF
Each of these projects are short--just four of ve pages.
The book is easy to understand and the projects are fun and
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Make Money Teaching Onlineby Kim Komando
Internet SIG
It’s true that money-making scams are
very common online. The good news is
there are perfectly legitimate ways to
make money over the Internet. Many
don’t even involve eBay.
If you have experience as an Englishlanguage teacher or tutor, you can
make extra income teaching English
online to Asians, South Americans and other people around
the world. It has, in fact, suddenly become an incredible
growth industry.
Most of the teachers providing this service work part time
from home, and - thanks to broadband Internet video-
conferencing - it doesn’t matter if that home is in Cody,
WY, or Miami, FL. Talk about globalization!
In the early days of teaching English online, freelancers
had to hustle to nd their own clients. Today, there are
several online services that act as liaisons between learners
and teachers.
Online language services all work a little differently. One
might be a better t for you than another, depending on
how entrepreneurial you are.
Once you’re accepted at Verbalplanet.com, for instance,
you hang your shingle up in the marketplace and hope that
students like your prole and experience. New teachers
often offer free trial lessons to attract students and get the
positive-feedback ball rolling.
Verbalplanet.com supplies easy-to-use appointment and
invoicing software. You set your own rate (most tutors
charge around $30 per session), and get paid by the students
through PayPal.
Verbalplanet.com is a partner of Harper Collins, which
publishes MP3 audio language courses, foreign language
dictionaries, and other educational materials. The service
takes no cut from the teachers.
In a very different business model, teachers get a at $12.50
an hour at the cleverly named English as a Second Income.
The tradeoff? You bypass the marketing work. The service
brings corporate students directly to you.
That service also provides a system for organizing teaching
sessions and using prepared guides. You can teach as many
or as few hours as you want.
Based in tiny Ten Sleep, Wyoming, Eleutian is a rapidly
growing company that contracts not only with foreign
corporations, but also with school systems and government
organizations.
Teachers must be experienced and certied, and go through
specic training. They earn anywhere from $11 to $13 per
hour for one-on-one tutoring or virtual classroom teaching.
So how can you tell these services are legitimate? First,
because I check them out before telling you about them,
of course.
Another clue is they aren’t asking for you to pay any
money upfront to get started. Whenever there’s an upfront
fee involved in a make-money-online venture, your scam
alert sirens should start blaring.
In this case, other than your teaching skills and experience,
all you need is a good headset, a fast Internet connection,and accounts with PayPal and Skype, or a similar free
video-conferencing service.
Just one disclaimer: Remember my remark about ways to
make money online that don’t involve eBay? This isn’t one
of them. PayPal, the payment method used by the services,
is owned by that online retail giant.
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Apple Education Event - January 19, 2012from eSchool News
Apple Unveils Interactive Textbooks,
Revamped iTunes Uby Denny Carter
Apple might make the heavy backpack an endangered
species.
There won’t be much students can’t do
with a few taps and swipes of their Apple
iPads after the tech giant’s introductionof iBooks 2–a book store that now
includes interactive textbooks–and an
iTunes University app that could create a
comprehensive school experience inside
the popular computer tablet.
Apple officials confirmed Jan. 19
weeklong speculation that the company
would jump into the textbook market
during a press event at New York’s Guggenheim Museum,
where Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of
marketing, introduced the next iteration of the iBooks app,which for the rst time will offer textbooks that start at
$14.99 or less for high school students.
The iBooks 2 app is available for free in Apple’s Apps
Store. Pricing for college textbooks wasn’t immediately
available. Apple’s iBooks 2 will be stocked by publishing
giants Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton-Mifflin
Harcourt, which make up 90 percent of the U.S. textbook
market.
Textbooks available on the iPad through the iBooks 2 app
will have interactive photos, videos, and diagrams, along
with 3D images that can be manipulated and rotated witha touch of the screen. Students can highlight sections of a
digital book with the swipe of a nger and create digital
index cards inside the book without leaving their current
page.
Authors of iBooks 2 textbooks can continually update
their content. Students, once they’ve purchased the digital
book for their iPad, can view the updated versions with no
charge, and can keep the book in their library indenitely.
“It’s certainly something we’ve been dreaming about for
a couple years,” said Bill Rankin, director of educational
innovation at Abilene Christian University (ACU) in
Texas, one of higher education’s most prominent users of
Apple products. “It’s equivalent to the democratization
that happened under Gutenberg. Digitized books are much
different than digital books. [Apple]
isn’t just offering digitized versions of
print material. This is a new generation
media object.”
The Apple announcement also
introduced educators and textbook
publishers to a free authoring tool for
anyone who wants to create a textbook.
Using Apple’s operating system,
authors can create books with templates
according to what kind of book they’re
writing and publishing.
Giving authors an easy way to publish content, Rankin said,will usurp the traditional view of peer review in education.
“This is really a revolutionary change in publishing and
information,” he said. “The benet of crowdsourcing …
outweighs dramatically the elitism that used to dominate
peer review. This breaks down the hierarchies and barriers
to real learning.”
Apple also showed off its newest version of iTunes U, an
online library that college students have used to download
700 million videos and other educational material over the
past four years.
The newest iteration of iTunes U will bring a host of
functionality to the app available in the Apple Apps Store.
Students will be able to take entire online courses through
iTunes U–everything from watching recorded lectures,
to submitting assignments, to rating faculty members.
Syllabi and faculty member proles are also available on
the iTunes U app.
The app even allows students to sign up for courses.
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Homework assigned by professors using the iTunes U app
are sent to a student’s iPad immediately. The student will
be notied of the assignment, tap it on the iPad screen,
and be transferred to the day’s assignment. Students can
place a check mark next to every nished assignment in
the iTunes U queue.
Higher education’s early iTune U adopters are Duke, Yale,
The Open University, Harrisburg Area Community College
(HACC), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).
“Never before have educators been able to offer full
courses in such an innovative way, allowing anyone who’s
interested in a particular topic to learn from anywhere in
the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president
of internet software and services. “Not just the classroom.”
Schiller said Apple would add to its new iTunes U and
iBooks 2 offerings, although details on when that mighthappen were scarce.
“There is a lot that’s talked about that might be wrong in
education, and no one person or company can x it all,”
he said.
Feds’ challenge to schools: Embrace
digital textbooksby Staff and Wire Service Reports
The Obama administration has challenged schools andcompanies to get digital textbooks in students’ hands
within ve years.
Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and
typewriters in schools?
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal
Communications Commission Chairman Julius
Genachowski on Feb. 1 challenged schools and companies
to get digital textbooks in students’ hands within ve years.
The Obama administration’s push comes two weeks after
Apple Inc. announced it would start to sell electronic
versions of a few standard high-school books for use on
its iPad tablet.
Digital books are viewed as a way to provide interactive
learning, potentially save money, and get updated material
faster to students.
Digital learning environments have been embraced in
Florida, Idaho, Utah, and California, as well as Joplin,
Mo., where laptops replaced textbooks destroyed in a
tornado. But many schools lack the broadband capacity
or the computers or tablets to adopt the technology, and
nding the money to go completely digital is difcult for
many schools in tough economic times.
Tied to the Feb. 1 announcement at a digital town hallwas the government’s release of a 67-page “playbook” to
schools that promotes the use of digital textbooks and offers
guidance. The administration hopes that dollars spent on
traditional textbooks can instead go toward making digital
learning more feasible.
G o i n g d i g i t a l
i m p r o v e s t h e
learning process,
and i t ’ s be ing
rol led out at a
faster pace in other
count r ies suchas South Korea,
Genachowski said
in an interview.
Genachowski said
he’s hopeful it can
be cost-effective in
the long run, especially as the price of digital tablets drops.
“When a student reads a textbook and gets to something
they don’t know, they are stuck,” Genachowski said.
“Working with the same material on a digital textbook,
when they get to something they don’t know, the device
can let them explore, it can show them what a word means,how to solve a math problem that they couldn’t gure out
how to solve.”
Students can use the textbooks for video explanations to
help with homework, they can interact with molecules, and
they can manipulate a digital globe to see stories and data
about countries, said Karen Cator, director of the Education
Department’s Ofce of Educational Technology.
“We’re not talking about the print-based textbook now
being digital. We’re talking about a much more robust and
interactive and engaging environment to support learning,”
Cator said.
About $8 billion is spent annually in the U.S. on textbooks
for children in kindergarten through 12th grade, said Jay
Diskey, executive director of the school division of the
Association of American Publishers. Diskey said textbook
companies have been working on the technology for the
past ve years to eight years to transform the industry, but
in many cases, schools simply aren’t ready.
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Apple AmbassadorContinued from page 2.
“It’s not only the future, it’s the now. The industry has
embraced this, but the difculty does lie in the fact that
schools are not yet fully equipped with the hardware. We
hope that they get there soon,” Diskey said.
After the tornado last May destroyed several schools in
Joplin, the decision was made essentially to go textbook-free at three sites hosting high school kids from Joplin
High School and the Franklin Technology Center. The
United Arab Emirates donated money to buy each student
a laptop. (For leading the digital textbook initiative, Joplin
Superintendent C.J. Huff was named a 2012 Tech-Savvy
Superintendent Award winner from eSchool News.)
The response from students has been mixed, said Angie
Besendorfer, the district’s assistant superintendent. She
said the transition has proved difcult for some kids
accustomed to a standard routine of answering questions
at the end of a chapter, but administrators are pleased
with the online learning and hope 8th-graders also will go
essentially textbook free.
“It’s a little bit more work on the side of the students, in
that they are having to think and problem solve and do
things differently, and some of our kids are not so fond
of that, whereas other kids like it a lot,” Besendorfer said.
However, the best route to take from the Northway is the
following:
1. Merge onto NY-7 East from the Northway.
2. Follow Route 7 to Troy where it becomes Hoosick
Street.
3. Turn left on Oakwood Avenue (10 Street/NY-40)
which is the rst light after the bridge and bare right.
4. Turn right on Sausse Avenue. Turn left onto
Lindenwood Court. When you come to the first
entrance to the hospital parking lot, turn left and park.
Program CoordinatorContinued from page 1.
relevant. They assume a basic to intermediate knowledge
of Lion. No explanations of les or how to click a mouse
is included. Since I knew how to do all of this or the things
I didn’t know didn’t interest me, I didn’t nd the book that
valuable. I learned this stuff the hard way through trial and
error. However if someone asked me how to do any of
these small projects, you bet I’ll suggest this book. New
Mac users who simply want to feel more comfortable with
their Mac and need some ideas of projects will nd this
book ideal. If I did Macintosh tutoring this would be a great
companion manual. Overall, a fun book for intermediate
Mac users with relevant and interesting projects.
Pros: Excellent digest of fun projects to
get to know Lion and your Mac better
Cons: Limited scope if you already know
how to do these things or if they don’t
interest you.
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Five Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Set Up Now Access menu commands across apps with these time-saving tips
by Sharon Zardetto, Macworld.com
Computers excel at repetitive tasks. So why are you opening the same menus and submenus, looking for the same
commands again and again?
OS X lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to menu commands so you can trigger them more quickly. You can tailor
application shortcuts to your work habits, but an especially productive way to use this capability is to set up shortcuts
that work everywhere.
Setting up a system-wide keyboard shortcut is a cinch: in System
Preferences, go to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of Keyboard
preferences. Click Application Shortcuts on the left and then
click the Add (+) button beneath the list. In the sheet that slides
out, select All Applications from menu and type the name of
the menu command in the Menu Title eld; enter the shortcut
you want to use for it and click Add.
A few tips: Type the command exactly as it appears.
Capitalization counts. If there’s an ellipsis (…) after the
command, press Option-semicolon to insert it. Typing three
periods won’t work. You don’t have to remember your
shortcuts—they’ll appear in the menus the same way standard
shortcuts do. If you change an existing shortcut, your new one
shows in the menu. If you delete it, the original one reappears
in the menu.
1. Put print options at your ngertips
Assign keyboard shortcuts to the printing options you use the
most, even when they’re buried in the Print dialog box. Forinstance, if you often save documents and Webpages as PDFs,
set up a shortcut that triggers Save as PDF... (copy and paste
the command from here to make sure you get it right). Now you
can you can activate that feature with a keyboard shortcut (say,
Command-Option-P), after opening the Print dialog box with
the shortcut Command-P. Keyboard shortcuts don’t work for
buttons, but the PDF button is actually a menu. For more details
on creating shortcuts for PDF options, see Leopard keyboard
tricks. I use a shortcut to switch from the Print dialog box’s
default Copies & Pages screen to its Layout options. Then I
use another one to change the number of pages per sheet to 2.
Assign shortcuts to whichever menus you use the most in thedialog box—switching printers can be especially convenient.
2. Zoom windows
When you want to toggle between a window’s default (usually as-large-as-possible) size and the size and position you’ve
specied manually, you don’t have to click the window’s green Zoom button. Most applications have a Window menu
with a Zoom or Zoom Window command, but no keyboard shortcut. Assign the same shortcut to both those commands
for full coverage. I nd that Control-Shift-Z is the combo least likely to conict with assigned Zoom- or Undo-related
commands in the applications that I use.
Create a global keyboard shortcut in Keyboard Preferences byclicking the Add button (circled) and choosing All Applicationsfrom the pop-up menu.
With global shortcuts, you can navigate a print dialog box quicklyfrom the keyboard.
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3. Un-minimize app windows
Several Apple applications have either a single window or a single main window (such as iPhoto, Font Book, iTunes,
iCal, Address Book, and Mail). If you minimize the window before you leave the program, when you come back there’s
no window showing. You can remember application-specic keyboard commands to recover the window or select it
from the Windows menu. Or, make a single shortcut that un-minimizes the main window in any of these apps. This setup
requires some work because the command in each program’s Window menu is different. In the Keyboard Shortcutspane, select the application’s name (instead of All Applications) from the Application menu. Type the window’s name
(in Mail, it’s “Message Viewer,” in iTunes it’s “iTunes,” in iCal it’s “iCal,” and so on) in the Menu Title eld, and set
the same key combo for each one. (I use Control-W.)
4. Open and switch applications
You don’t need a third-party utility like LaunchBar or QuicKeys to launch or switch to an application via the keyboard.
Since shortcuts work on submenus, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to a program in the Apple menu’s oft-overlooked
Recent Items submenu. The shortcut works only if the application is listed in the menu, so go to the System Preferences
General Preference pane and up the Number Of Recent Items to at least 20 so the app won’t get knocked out of the
menu as you work in other programs. (While other shortcuts are practically instantaneous, the change to the Recent
Items list can take up to 20 or 30 seconds, so be patient.)
Bonus tip Because the shortcut name must match the menu item exactly, you’ll run into a problem if you change your
Finder Preferences setting for Show All Filename Extensions (in the Advanced pane). If your shortcut is dened for
“Mail” and it’s later listed as “Mail.app,” the shortcut won’t work. The solution is to create two shortcuts, one for Mail
and one for Mail.app, and give them both the same keyboard trigger.
5. Access recent folders
If you return to certain folders repeatedly in the Finder, the Go
menu’s Recent Folders submenu can be a big help. Assigning
a Finder shortcut to an often-used folder that appears here is
convenient, but hardly global. However, assign a shortcut to a
folder’s name under All Applications instead of the Finder. That
way, you can jump to the folder in Open and Save dialog boxeswhen the folder is listed in the menu (as part of the current folder
path or under Recent Places). Because the Recent Folders list
is so short (you can’t up the number in General preferences),
this works only for folders you access frequently—but those
are the ones that need shortcuts. And, your mileage may vary
because some apps are persnickety about supporting this feature.
Set a shortcut for a folder name and it appears in the Finder’sRecent Folders list as well as in some Open and Save dialog
boxes.
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Members
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